GURPS Day Summary Mar 18 – Mar 24, 2016

Thursday is GURPSDay, and below you can find the blog activity from the last seven days.

Over the last week, there have been 54 GURPS-Related posts from our list of 37 blogs that have popped up on the radar screen, which is a nice chunk of reading material. Not every blog posts about GURPS every week, but some are ridiculously prolific! The list is randomized, so different bloggers will be highlighted at the top of the post each week. 

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Just Roll 3d6 (Colin)

• GURPS Lite Review (3/22/16) – GURPS Lite is a great resource for introducing new players to GURPS. This review looks at what Lite does well, as well as the areas that need more support from Basic Set before players can start playing.

The Lands of Nandêmē (Charles Saeger)

• Sola Scriptura IX (3/22/16)

Orbital Vagaries (Christian Blouin)

• What I changed as a GM in the last few campaigns (3/21/16)

Game in the Brain (Justin Aquino)

• GURPS Languages (3/23/16)

Northport (Denis McCarthy)

• Ludlow and Razakeel: Apprentices at large (3/23/16)

The Red Mouser (Gotha)

• It’s more than just GURPS (3/23/16)

Cursed -75 Points (Chris Nebulous)

• The Jester (3/22/16)
• Modular Abilities (3/21/16)
• Skills For Some (3/21/16)
• rpgs-are-neat:

  weareadventurers:

  Tarek Al-Amir, the Paladin

  I… (3/21/16)

• GURPS Iconics TODO (3/20/16)
• Oh! Since many of you don’t play GURPS, I’m open to questions and requests! (3/20/16)
• Oh! Since many of you don’t play GURPS, I’m open to questions and requests! (3/20/16)
• weareadventurers:

  Tarek Al-Amir, the Paladin

  I had a lot of… (3/20/16)

• So I’ve been a GURPS GM for years and years, and I’d like to submit some character sheets for your iconics. Is there any interest, or should I not bother? (3/20/16)

Ravens N’ Pennies (Christopher R. Rice)

• Gamemaster’s Guidepost: Subtle Sorcery (3/25/16)
• Gamemaster’s Guidepost: Making Every Action Count (3/22/16)
• GURPS101: Extra, Extra Effort (3/19/16)

Game Geekery (“Warren “”Mook”” Wilson”)

• GURPS Shotguns – This Is My Boomstick (3/23/16) – GURPS has a few fringe-case/optional rules that I find a bit more fiddly than the wonderfully elegant core bits. Today I’m looking at the first of these… how shotguns work in the game.

The Collaborative Gamer (Joseph Linden)

• The Adventures of Temian Fell – Episode 3 – The Journey to Heirloom Peak (3/23/16)
• The Adventures of Temian Fell – Episode 2 – The Witch of Dunmoss (3/19/16)

Insidious GURPS Planning (Mr. Insidious)

• Starting a new Biweekly game, Looking for one More Player (3/22/16)
• A possible solution to my mapping woes? (3/19/16)

Dungeon Fantastic (Peter Dell’Orto)

• Treating the Hirelings Right (3/24/16)
• How do you spend your earned XP? (3/22/16)
• Mistreating the Hirelings II: Ominous Table Talk (3/21/16)
• Hireling Optional Rules – Mistreating the Hirelings (3/19/16)

Worlds Beyond Earth (Derrick White)

• ICOPs, Gurps Action, and the BAT (3/20/16)

Gaming Ballistic (Douglas Cole)

• GURPS Day Summary Mar 18 – Mar 24, 2016 (3/24/16)
• Worse Better Fantasy Armor (3/24/16) – Thursday is GURPSDay, and I take a conversation I had about the No School Grognard ‘Better Fantasy Armor’ design system and start tweaking. For campaigns more realistic than DF, I like where it ended up.
• Aeon Campaign: S1E11 – Exercising and Exorcising (3/22/16) – The Cavalry has an epic battle with the primary season 1 foe in the epic conclusion to the story arc. We learn what happens when you actually take time to plan, and we take down the bad guys in spectacular fashion. Too spectacular in some cases, which will have some repercussions later.
• Hirelings have a shelf life (3/21/16) – Eventually, the hirelings get tired of being pushed around . . . then they do what you least expect. Retire and buy an inn. Inspired by posts from +Peter V. Dell’Orto talking about hireling abuse.

Shooting Dice (Hans-Christian Vortisch)

• High-Tech: True Detective (3/24/16)
• High-Tech: Glock P9M (3/19/16)

Dark Paths and Wandered Roads (Jason Woollard)

• Sundered Lands 3 (3/24/16) – The companions finally arrive in the city of Essanos and begin their search for the mysterious blonde girl said to be the key to defeating the Chaos Lords. The newest adventures in the Sundered Lands of Palladium, our GURPS: Palladium Fantasy campaign.

Let’s GURPS (Pseudonym)

• Cross-Post: GURPSDay Summary and Reflections (3/24/16) – Blarg-o-blag from the last week.
• Weapon: Fast-Ready, No Armor Divisor Whip (3/24/16) – A short demonstration on pricing out a whip that does decent damage and doesn’t take forever to load. It turns out to be very expensive.
• Review: Dungeon Fantasy 15: Henchmen (3/23/16) – A very useful resource for enabling low powered characters either as allies, hirelings, low powered player characters, custom delvers or in-depth NPCs.
• CER: The Natural Encyclopedia: Eel, Electric – Leontophontes (3/23/16) – A fourth part of a big project, using the fantastic Natural Encyclopedia bestiary by Kevin A. Muñoz.
• Cross-Post: Hirelings (3/22/16) – A happening topic this week: how to deal with and handle hireling abuse, and my opinions on that.
• Random Encounter Tables: Templated, and Applied (3/22/16) – Thoughts on searching for a pattern to develop decent random encounter tables.
• CER: The Natural Encyclopedia: Blizzard Maker – Echidna, Giant (3/20/16) – A third part of a big project, using the fantastic Natural Encyclopedia bestiary by Kevin A. Muñoz.
• Five Room Dungeon: Purify The Altar to The God of Zero (3/19/16) – A more generic dungeon as I try to hone in on that sweet spot of generic enough to be remixable, but defined enough to be immediately useful.
• Encounter: Blood Soaked Hag and Her Pets (3/18/16) – A weak witch with a fearsome swarm of magic mosquitoes.

Mailanka’s Musings (Daniel Dover)

• Psi Wars: Spaceships Playtest — Tactical Combat (3/24/16) – If we don’t like the standard combat system, how does the tactical system from SS3 stack up? Our heroic ace faces off against both fighters and a dreadnought in the tactical system!
• Psi Wars: Spacehips Playtest — Starhawk vs Empire-Class Dreanought (3/23/16) – A fighter vs a capital ship, using existing designs from SS3 and SS4, in a fight using the standard spaceships rules
• Psi Wars: Spaceships Playtest – Starhawk vs Typhoon (3/22/16) – Two fighters, from GURPS Spaceships 4, duke it out in the standard spaceships combat system
• Psi Wars: Spaceships! – Sample Character Tobin Starlaw (3/21/16) – A quick sample character to use in our spaceship playtesting
• Psi Wars: Spaceships! (3/20/16) – I kick off the epic Spaceships datadump with What I need from spaceships in Psi Wars (and most space opera), a look at the problems I face, and I take a quick look at the dogfighting rules from a Pyramid article

5 Stone Games (5 Stone Games)

• A Tip For Much Faster and more fun GURPS Combat (3/24/16)
• What Happened to GURPSday (3/24/16)

Southern Style GURPS (Chris Bower)

• Review: GURPS Powers: The Weird (3/21/16) – My review of GURPS Powers: The Weird.

World of Lycretia (Jeromy French)

• The Drunken Goat (3/18/16)

No School Grognard (Mark Langsdorf)

• GURPS: After the End and Gamma World, 2nd Edition (3/19/16)